Robert GravesThinkers

An Anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention, as cure.

Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision blotting out reason.

The Poet is a person who is usually dead by his late twenties.

Poetry 1s 2unction is religious invocation of the Muse.

Poetry is a worthy endeavor — it's true that there's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either

The Tongue is mightier than the blade.

Virgil is so great an influence on our Western culture is, paradoxically, because he was a renegade to the true Muse. His pliability; his subservience; his narrowness; his denial of that stubborn imaginative freedom which the true poets who preceded him had prized; his perfect lack of originality, courage, humour, or even animal spirits: these were the negative qualities which first commended him to government circles and have kept him in public favour ever since. [...] Few poets have brought such discredit as Virgil on their sacred calling.

William Shakespeare is remarkable in that he is really very good — in spite of all the people who say he is very good.